Back to Continuing Education

Want to buy for someone else? You can purchase a token at check out.

Overview
Goals and Outcomes
Details
Accreditations
Overview
Overview
The preceptor’s role is to help less experienced nurses identify learning needs, set goals for improvement, and provide feedback on their progress. Preceptors are role models for professionalism and best practices in the clinical setting, socializing nurses into the work group, while educating and orienting them. Besides working with new graduates, preceptors are assigned to nurses who change positions, whether they move within an organization when switching specialties or they enter a new facility.
 
Preceptors require additional education, support, and interventions to prevent preceptor burnout and dissatisfaction. High turnover rates, increased cost, and low morale among nurses can occur when the preceptor role is weak or not valued. The number of new graduates, in particular, continues to grow, and as a result, more preceptors are required.
Goals and Outcomes
Goals and Learning Outcomes
The goal of this program is to provide nurses with knowledge and insight into the preceptor role. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:
  • Discuss why preceptors are critical to the professional future of nursing.
  • Identify the essential elements and techniques to strengthen the preceptor role.
  • Discuss how preceptors improve retention and recruitment.
Details
Course Details

Course Originally Released on : 5/8/2006

CE393-60

Course Author

Sheila J. Leis

MS, RN

Accreditations
Accreditations

NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

Accreditations imageAccreditations image

Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

CEBroker
Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
Please check the licenses/certifications section under my account (after logging in) to make sure you have entered a valid license number. This information is required for correct reporting of your course completions to CE Broker.

Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.